₦airaland Forum

Bagehot:
In Lagos state, the inheritance laws disallow any parent from leaving any of their children out of their wills. So even if you disown them , if they go to court, they will be victorious - applies to both males and females.

LaboPolitics:
I laugh in Odenigbo.

What they have refused not saying here is that whenever an Igbo lady gets married, the father settles her with her own inheritance as she goes into her husband's house and bears a new surname. I've seen Igbo men settle their daughters with houses, estates, cars, and other valuable properties as she goes into her husbands house. My mom was settled by her family with 2 ladies motorcycle in the days when owners of white horse bicycles were respected. Teachers and civil servants rode bicycles to work then.

It is the husband that marries the woman and her post-marital inheritance lies in her husband's domain no longer in her father's house. Her mother's inheritance is also hers in Igbo custom.

What the law will simply encourage is for criminal minded men to marry ladies from wealthy families so as to share in the largess and wealth of their father-in-laws and confront brother-in-laws for properties that they were not present when the 'sweat laid the bricks'. Chaos!

The yoruba Judge simply read an academic note not a judgment. He is not ethnically-wired to understand the nittygritty of that customary law and why wise elders of Igbo land enacted it thousands of years before his forefathers were born.

The law is deeper than quoting paper sections and subsections, it is unimplementable. You can't force Igbo men to will their properties into another family where their daughter married into after settling the daughter with her properties when they got married.

UnimkeAk:
Dude , I'm Igbo... I wouldn't hide it bro...

BabaRamota1980:
Anywhere in Yorubaland If a girl report to Baale that her right to inheritance was denied the family is in trouble. The Baale will involve the customary court.

rabzy:
You need to look at how villages where structured then, what challenges they faced and how it is addressed.
The houses makes up the clan and the clan makes up the village. Each house head is a decision maker, these decisions are made in the respective associations and age group, there are age groups that makes war decisions, there those that prepare for war and fights the war. If the woman inherits the house, that house is effectively cut off, she can't join in the decision making, neither can she mobilize her sons for war, her children are not from that village, they might even be from the enemy's place. When the woman marries, he goes to his husband's place, the house will no longer count as a force in the clan. The house would collapse
Most cultures in the world do not give women the right to inherit titles of their father or to be the head of their house.
Many of the reasons might no longer be tenable, so necessary changes are acceptable to ease everyone's suffering.

SpecialAdviser:
Am an Igbo, I support that every female should have right to their father's property.

My daughters will have right to my property.

Anybody against it is just plain s.tupid.

rabzy:
Possibly, but most times what you are expected to do to claim that right are not expensive, maybe just to buy the cloth to wrap the dead body. You would be expected to entertain people and of course your siblings are expected to contribute but they won't disinherit you because you can't entertain the guests. What if you are the only son, would they give your house to a kinsman because you don't have money.
Like I said women can inherit the father's properties, there might be a few places where this is not the case.

golddare:
We pray the law will help to make those changes at least to some extent.

hammer8:
IT IS INEFFECTIVE, HOLDS NO REGARD.

golddare:
You mean they dont care about the law right?

pocohantas:
Where is the sense/logic in this?

The daughters inherit and marry made men, while the men can’t marry made women?

Who are the daughters marrying? Goats?

Which 80% of bills are you people running? With which salary? Npower or minimum wage? Only on Nairaland...

Princedapace:
When i married, I paid all the bills my self. The wedding expenses were all carried out by me. One of the guys I know who married few weeks ago, he took care of almost 90 percent of the wedding bills. He is the one trying to establish his wife now after they got married since she is not getting a job.

pocohantas:
It is not us that told you to marry very dependent women and take care of 99.9% of your wedding bills. Carry your cross and stop whining.

However, it remains a myth that most Nigerian men are carrying over 80% of expenses. Where una see the money? All the women selling in the market and taking insults from market leaders are doing it because they have rich horsebands like you that can shoulder 80% of recurrent bills without flinching. C’mon go sleep.

hammer8:
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF IGBO AND YORUBA?


IT MEANS IGBO DO THINGS A LITTLE DIFFERENT, IT DONT MEAN, U ARE BETTER IN TERMS OF WOMEN RIGHTS, IT JUST MEAN U DO IT YOUR WAY AND WE DO IT OUR WAY.


EITHER WAY, WOMEN DO INHERIT PROPERTIES IN IGBO LAND, IN THEIR HUSBAND HOUSE AND COLLECT SETTLEMENT FROM THEIR FATHER HOUSE.

BabaRamota1980:
Supreme Court disagree with you.

Akacollins7:
What did Bible tell us about inheritance, Number 27. A lady that'll marry to another man that have own father inheritance, have already have inheritance. Her brother too marry to another lady, the lady have inheritance with the brother. This just greediness. The best gift you can give your daughter is best education or otherwise

kolade560:
Igbo's are still backward ooo, the male children they exalt are the ones constituting IPOB and peddling drugs around the world..

hammer8:
IT IS STLL THEIR PROPERTY, U PEOPLE ARE AFTER.

kolade560:
which property?

kolade560:
Igbo's are still backward ooo, the male children they exalt are the ones constituting IPOB and peddling drugs around the world..

Princedapace:
My dear, I didnt come here to argue with u. It is a known fact that many ladies even get married without having a job, some were established by their husbands.

In many homes across the country, husbands still run most of the bills. In relationship, same issue. I dated my woman from her second year, placed her on monthly upkeep money and took care of her school bills, she finished, married her, enrolled her into training she is running now to establish her once she is done. My two best friends are doing same. Bill sharing is not yet balanced here. We are getting there, so we will get there..

When i married, I paid all the bills my self. The wedding expenses were all carried out by me. One of the guys I know who married few weeks ago, he took care of almost 90 percent of the wedding bills. He is the one trying to establish his wife now after they got married since she is not getting a job.

In Nigeria, it is quite okay for a lady to get married while not having sufficient money but not okay for a man to do so. I just gave u why this idea was started initially and since we are migrating out of it, we also need to balance the bills on both genders to reduce the stress on men financially.

It is easier for a made man to marry a broke girl but very hard for a made lady to marry a broke guy. U and i know this is fact. These things got to change too.

pocohantas:
After carefully studying my association, I realized the Igbo men I get along with well are mostly diasporans or those that were brought up outside the SE. E get why...

csamii:
Your people that are head hunters nko? Especially in this 21 century. I guess they still live in the stone age.

hammer8:
THE ONE U ARE HOPING TO INHERIT.

OR WHY ELSE ARE U ON THIS THREAD?

hammer8:
THE ONE U ARE HOPING TO INHERIT.

OR WHY ELSE ARE U ON THIS THREAD?

kolade560:
u are offside man